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Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc

The mission of the florida association of agencies serving the blind is to serve as a united voice and be the organizational support empowering private agencies serving floridans with blindness and visual impairment to provide state-of-the-art professional vision rehabilitation services which enhance the quality of individual and…

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$142,774
Largest grant, FY2024
$230,490
Organizations funded a year
11 to 16
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$795k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$1.9M0%
FY202315$1.3M7%
FY202211$831k0%
FY202115$856k7%
FY202016$745k13%
FY201914$905k0%
FY201815$943kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$5.6MHuman Services$1.5MEmployment$389kEducation$12k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lighthouse of Broward County Inc$1,124,76175%
Lighthouse Central Florida Inc$953,28274%
Lighthouse of Southwest Florida Inc$680,139713%
Conklin Davis Center for the Visually Impaired Inc$650,86876%
Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches Inc$587,746713%
Lighthouse of the Big Bend Inc$522,037712%
Florida Center for the Blind Inc$503,577719%
Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc$468,55178%
Lighthouse of Collier Inc$399,772712%
Independence for the Blind of West Florida Inc$389,063715%
Lighthouse of Pinellas Inc$361,49265%
New Vision for Independence$301,1824n/a
Tampa Lighthouse for the Blind Inc$181,42252%
Mana-Sota Lighthouse for the Blind Inc$164,77764%
New Vision for Independence Inc$112,66039%
Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc$57,95710%
Florida State College at Jacksonville Foundation Inc$11,66120%
Florida State College at Jacksonville Vision Education & Rehab Center$7,4841n/a
Florida Outreach Center for the Blind Inc$89010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLighthouse of Broward County Inc: $1,124,761 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetLighthouse Central Florida Inc: $953,282 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetLighthouse of Southwest Florida Inc: $680,139 over 7y, 13% of budgetConklin Davis Center for the Visually Impaired Inc: $650,868 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetLighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches Inc: $587,746 over 7y, 13% of budgetLighthouse of the Big Bend Inc: $522,037 over 7y, 12% of budgetFlorida Center for the Blind Inc: $503,577 over 7y, 19% of budgetLighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind Inc: $468,551 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetLighthouse of Collier Inc: $399,772 over 7y, 12% of budgetIndependence for the Blind of West Florida Inc: $389,063 over 7y, 15% of budgetLighthouse of Pinellas Inc: $361,492 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetTampa Lighthouse for the Blind Inc: $181,422 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMana-Sota Lighthouse for the Blind Inc: $164,777 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetNew Vision for Independence Inc: $112,660 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetMiami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc: $57,957 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFlorida State College at Jacksonville Foundation Inc: $11,661 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Outreach Center for the Blind Inc: $890 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Williams M M & R P Fdn TaFL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Hoffa Memorial Foundation Ttee · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc

How much does Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc give?
Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc reported 13 grants totaling $1,863,176 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (75%), Human Services (20%), Employment (5%).
Who are Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Lighthouse of Broward County Inc ($1.1M), Lighthouse Central Florida Inc ($953k), Lighthouse of Southwest Florida Inc ($680k).
Does Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta, Publix Super Markets Charities Inc, Hoffa Memorial Foundation Ttee.
Where is Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc based?
Florida Association of Agencies Serving the Blind Inc is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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